Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
News Beats dealing with PCIe extension ribbons but finding a suitable PC case might be more trouble than its worth.
'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
News Vital engineering research to answer the question, "What if…?"
Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
News It's not a big problem at the moment, but don't be surprised if, at the end of it all, you'll just be paying more for your PC parts.
Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
News No P, no E. Just cores. Super cores.
I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
News Sadly, no amount of GPU super-tech will fix the rough, old-looking textures.
Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
News Pinky promise?
Highly intricate water blocks like this one may become the norm as server CPU power consumption soars, and could even trickle down into gaming PCs
News Massive AI GPUs are already using them, so naturally, CPUs are feeling a bit jealous.
Armed with AMD's latest SDK, DLSS Swapper, and one renamed file, you can apparently just drop FSR 4 into games that run FSR 3
News Whether it's actually using FSR 4 or just stating the name of the file version is the million-dollar question, though.
Claimed Sony PS6 handheld console specs promise a miracle of next-gen, cutting-edge processor architectures at a price that's barely enough for today's hardware
News It's not the season to be jolly yet, so how about a season of silly suggestions instead?
Microsoft adds full stereo Bluetooth LE Audio for gaming to Windows 11 because mono with mics is so last century
News Redmond's gettin' with the times.
The radiance of a thousand suns: Overclockers set a new world record of 9.1 GHz with a P-core only 14900K
News Admittedly, only one of the cores hit that speed, but it's still one heck of an achievement.
Alienware 18 Area-51 (2025) gaming laptop review
Score: 80% With a better screen and keyboard, this could have been Alienware's best-ever laptop.
AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether
News Alas, poor Wraith Prism! I knew it, dear reader: a cooler of most excellent fancy.
Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process'
News Put simply, he's saying that devs need to aim low first, then target higher-tier hardware later on.
Further details of Nvidia's GB10 'superchip' shine light on the complex collaboration with MediaTek
News Though folks who have ordered one would probably have preferred to get the actual chip rather than just a tech breakdown.
Fresh rumours claim that AMD is planning a 16 GB version of its RX 9070 GRE graphics card, though there are still no signs of a global release yet
News Is the change to meet market demands or to have something to go against the inevitable RTX 50 Super models?
SK Hynix's 'world first' 321-layer QLC flash memory chips, boasting 100% faster transfer speeds and up to 56% greater write performance, will be in gaming PCs next year
News This could be the turning point where we all stop going 'Eww' when we see a QLC SSD.
Gears of War: Reloaded PC performance: The updated graphics are easy work for any desktop GPU from the past six years but they're still enough to give handhelds grief
Re-re-geared You could use the potato-mode preset to get better portable performance, though your eyes won't thank you.
Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
News Eight channels worth of 256 GB DDR5 running at 8,400 MT/s CAS38 is astonishing.
Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with so many pixels it demands DLSS 3 upscaling, the other with a horizontal FOV twice that of the Quest 3
News Gimme. Gimme now.
AMD's tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games
News Getting ready for FSR to be on par with DLSS. Maybe even better.
Purported Amazon GPU sales figures suggest that a lot of PC shoppers are buying some truly ancient graphics cards
News The overall numbers follow expectations, but there are some glitches in this matrix for sure.
